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When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

Tony Campolo

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Tony Campolo
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: February 25
Author
Pastor
Sociologist
Theologian
University Teacher
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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Everybody
Dies
Happiness
Happy
Crying
Born
Cried
Else
Matters
Matter
Cry

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